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Tackling Maternal and Child Undernutrition Programme- Phase II
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To contribute towards improved health and nutrition status for children under two years measured primarily by a reduction in stunting by 2023.
Tristan da Cunha Provision of Technical Assistance and Essential Infrastructure 2023 to 2025
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To enable the Administration of Tristan da Cunha to provide appropriate public services to meet the basic health, education, safeguarding and governance needs of the island community, through the provision of professional expertise and training.
Risk Pools Programme (RPP)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To support a parametric (index-based) weather risk insurance pool that will provide participating African countries with predictable, quick-disbursing funds with which to implement pre-defined contingency response plans in the case of a drought.
Investing in Human Capital through Partnerships Beyond Aid in the Social Sectors Programme
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To improve governance and accountability in education, health and social protection sectors and contribute to policy and research which will inform interventions to improve equity and reduce poverty.
Ethiopia Crises 2 Resilience (EC2R)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
The Ethiopia Crises to Resilience (EC2R) programme is aimed to alleviate the impact of the conflict and drought to the poorest Ethiopians. The programme tries to address urgent humanitarian needs while maintaining the delivery of essential services across the country.
St Helena Economic Development Investment Programme
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
Supporting economic development in St Helena through enhanced dialogue on policy reforms, infrastructure development and through harnessing private investment opportunities.
Ukraine Humanitarian Response Programme
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
This programme supports life-saving interventions and protection for vulnerable people, including women and children, refugees and those internally displaced within Ukraine. This multi-sectoral programme supports a range of partner interventions in cash/food, medical, water and hygiene, education and shelter support, logistics, and gender-based violence, protection and anti-trafficking. This programme also provides in-kind items to partner governments, and contracts humanitarian expertise to enable an effective response and push for sufficient humanitarian access.
Getting children ready to learn and thrive - Research into implementing effective and quality Early Childhood Development at scale
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
The THRIVE Early Childhood Development research programme will deliver research on how to implement effective ECD interventions at scale in LMICs. Through an innovative model of research co-designed and aligned to DFID country programmes, THRIVE will support four DFID bilateral programmes to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of ECD interventions emdedded in their education and human development programmes, and commission globally-relevant research into optimal ECD service delivery and scale up strategies. Through the proposed COVID-19 pivot, the programme will generate real time evidence on impact of Covid-19 on young children's learning and development, and test at scale innovation on approaches to mitigate the crisis of learning and care. This programme directly responds to the manifesto commitment on girls' education.
Commonwealth Veteran's Welfare Programme for ODA Eligible Countries
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To provide commonwealth veterans and their widows/widowers from ODA eligible countries, who worked for British Armed Forces before their countries gained independence, now living in poverty, with two meals a day through a 5 year cash transfer programme.
Sub-National Governance Programme -II (SNG-II)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
The programme will improve government’s management of its public finances and thereby the provision of basic services for the poorest, and the most vulnerable, including women, girls and people with disabilities. It will also strengthen citizens’ perceptions of its performance. This programme will also work across four themes, all aimed at getting the right systems and resources in place for the effective functioning of government and the delivery of services. These themes are: Planning and reform, Budgeting and transparency, Fiscal Space and Innovations.
Resilience, Adaptation and Inclusion in Nepal (RAIN) Programme
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
Recognising the interlinkages between climate change adaptation and mitigation, disaster risk management and adaptive social protection, the programme will integrate components from the current 'Climate Smart Development Programme' and 'Strengthening Disaster Resilience Programme' to mitigate risks, reduce vulnerability and build resilience.
The Evidence Fund - 300708
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
The Evidence Fund procures and manages research and evaluations that primarily benefit ODA eligible countries. Most research and evaluations paid for by the Evidence Fund are country-specific, and all respond to requests for evidence to inform programme or policy decisions. Primarily serving research requests from HMG’s Embassies and High Commissions in ODA eligible countries, and from HMG policy and strategy teams, the Evidence Fund strengthens the evidence behind the UK’s priority international development investments and development diplomacy. The Evidence Fund also invests modest amounts of non-ODA, to strengthen the evidence behind wider UK foreign policy.
Enhancing Gender Outcomes through Social Services Systems Strengthening (Samartha)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
This programme will focus on improving the systems and capacity of local government to deliver its social service mandates with a specific focus on improving access to quality health and education services, especially by women, girls and excluded groups. This will be complemented with national policy support in the Health and Education sectors to ensure sector policies and resource allocations align to support Nepal in building responsive and resilient Health and Education systems.
India Challenge Enabling Fund (ICE)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
ICE will support innovations, build evidence, share knowledge and technical expertise as pilots or strategic interventions to support the objectives of the India-UK road map and the Country Business Plan through ODA funding that supports development in India. It will aim to co-design interventions with Indian and UK institutions – government, civil society, think tanks – on specific questions/areas that will inform state/central policies, unlock resources, and promote sustainable and inclusive outcomes.
St Helena Financial Aid 2023/24 to 2024/25
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
The UK Government has international commitments to meet the reasonable assistance needs of the citizens of St Helena. This bridges the gap between the domestic revenues collected and the costs of delivering public services on the island. This includes bringing in necessary international expertise to provide skills and experience not available on island and maintaining access to the island
Building Resilience and an Effective Emergency Refugee Response (BRAER)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
The programme will provide emergency life-saving assistance to the large influxes of refugees arriving in Uganda, build resilience among refugees and their host communities to reduce Uganda’s humanitarian burden, and deliver on UK Humanitarian Reform priorities. It will support the UK in its leadership role to develop new approaches to protracted crises and in delivering on the New York Declaration’s Comprehensive Refugee Response Framework, with regional and global impact.
Somalia Stability Fund III
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
Somalia Stability Fund III will work to build stability in Somalia. It will do so by deepening understanding of the core underlying causes and drivers of conflict and instability. It will address them in ways that help widen and deepen the political settlement (agreements between different political actors), at multiple levels, and help build resilience to conflict and violence when these political settlement processes inevitably come under stress.
Strengthening disaster resilience in Nepal
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
This project will strengthen disaster resilience in Nepal, particularly to earthquakes, by working with urban centres to build and plan more safely; supporting the strengthening of critical public infrastructure to earthquakes; working to strengthen national capacity to respond to crises and ensure that the international community is prepared; and ensuring that the UK is able to support a humanitarian response should a crises hit.
Safeguarding Innovation and Engagement Programme Fund
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
The Safeguarding Innovation and Engagement Programme Fund will provide targeted resources over the next two years with a focus on: (1) providing responsive expert advice and technical assistance; (2) piloting and implementing approaches to raise safeguarding standards; and (3) engaging and convening partners to drive up standards and deliver culture change across the international aid sector.
Building Resilience and adapting to climate change in Malawi
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
This programme aims to strengthen the resilience of poor households in Malawi to withstand current and projected weather and climate-related shocks and stresses. This will in turn halt the annual cycle of humanitarian crises that blights people’s lives, harms poverty reduction efforts and swallows up resources. The UK will invest up to £90.5 million over eight years [2018-2026] to provide direct benefits to 1.7 million poor and vulnerable people in Malawi [approximately 300,000 households].The programme also supports environmental and resilience outcomes through reducing deforestation directly and indirectly.
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